Carbon-fibre-based multi-payload adapter from ATG Italy

ESA supports and accelerates disruptive technologies that will best meet ESA’s future space transportation needs for the 2025–2040 period under an ESA initiative called FIRST! – Future Innovation Research in Space Transportation.

ATG Italy will use its carbon-fibre-based multi-payload adapter to replace current metallic structures. Multi-payload adapters need to be sturdy and provide connections to multiple satellites, while withstanding the stresses of launch.

This new composite lattice technology could open the way for lighter multi-payload adapters to increase payload capacity and cut the costs of launch.